Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: JUNE 16, 2000 The plays of Federico Garcia Lorca are about passion and poetry. Tragedy and social violence. Repression and revenge. It was a crime of passion that inspired the playwright to write his classic, "Blood Wedding" in 1933 -- a news story about a bride who elopes with her cousin, after which her jilted groom murders her lover. The play was written in a Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: JUNE 9, 2000 The Old Globe is spinning.… In its 65th anniversary year, the venerable lady in the Park has a new lease on life -- with two theatrical winners: a drama of subtle secrets and a musical that bares all. In the Cassius Carter, there's "Old Wicked Songs," just the kind of play this intimate theater was built for -- a small, Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: JUNE 2, 2000 MUSIC: the Doors: "Light My Fire"} Jim Morrison. The Doors. Quintessence of the '60s. Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll. Death, resurrection, utopia. The band broke up when Morrison, the darkly romantic poet, died in 1971, at age 27. But the Doors' recordings still go platinum every year. And now, their high Read More →
POSTED: MAY 26, 2000 It's what you might call a "shticky" situation. The players are brilliant, the play's a modern classic. But the concept is so big and broad and over-the-top, the entire meaning of the original is lost, buried under every slap-shtick in the book. In its auspicious premiere production, the Renaissance Theatre Company brought in Joan Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: MAY 26, 2000 It's trite, but true: In unity, there is strength. Though excellent work has come from each of the three theater companies brought together under the banner of the San Diego Arts Collaborative, their joint effort brings new meaning to the "intercultural experience" and to the play they've selected. Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love" concerns a push Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: MAY 19, 2000 With her cue-ball head, piercing blue eyes and genderless facade, Rachel Rosenthal looks positively other-worldly. And that fits her new performance piece just fine. In "Ur-Boor," we first see her trapped in what appears to be some high-tech hell… a cage-like, egg-shaped rat's nest of steel and wires. But we Read More →
“San Diego is a hotbed of theater. Every year, I see 200-250 productions. This is fertile ground for new work. In addition to the prodigious local talent, theatermakers from around the country come here to premiere their latest creations. San Diego sends more shows to Broadway than nearly any other city in the U.S.”
-Pat Launer